U.S. House Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), head of the House Judiciary Committee, claimed that the FBI and other federal agencies have been “weaponized.”
In a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, Jordan argued that federal agencies have handled President Joe Biden’s possession of classified documents very differently than when former President Donald Trump had classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
As previously covered by The Dallas Express, the FBI discovered classified documents in Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., and at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
“The FBI spied on the president’s campaign, altered evidence in front of the FISA court, paid a confidential human source even after they knew that confidential human source had lied to them,” Jordan said. “The FBI raided the home of a former president 91 days before an election, took the phone of a sitting member of Congress, and on and on.”
However, host Chuck Todd countered, saying, “There was nine months between the initial action the [National] Archives made for requested documents before they even turned it over to the Justice Department. The subpoena was issued 60 days before they actually executed the subpoena.”
“And more importantly, the only time the public found out about it is because Donald Trump told the public about it,” he continued. “This is not some sort of proof that somehow they’ve been weaponized and playing politics.”
Jordan replied, “They raided Trump’s home. They haven’t raided Biden’s home.”
“Because Biden didn’t defy a subpoena,” Todd said, explaining that the former president had 60 days to comply with the FBI before a search warrant was executed.
“President Trump had documents locked in a room with Secret Service protecting them,” Jordan said. “President Biden had documents in his garage and in a think tank that was funded by the Chinese. I think there’s a difference.”
Jordan explained that what he takes issue with is a lack of “equal treatment under the law.”
As previously covered by The Dallas Express, the Department of Justice has faced criticism for being softer on Biden than on Trump.
A former FBI assistant director said there is “a glaring disparity in how somewhat identical facts are treated when it comes to the Bidens.”
“You know, it’s kid gloves, it’s going about it in a very nice way, very genteel,” Chris Swecker said.
